Tea-table [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Rituals & Ceremonies / Eating & Drinking ]
… In poems (Nahum Tate’s Panacea: a Poem upon Tea [1700], and Peter Motteux’s A Poem in Praise of Tea [1712]), as well as plays (Congreve, Way of the World [1700]), the tea-table was repeatedly represented as a synecdoche for the sociable …
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